hello, welcome to the programme. we have got another action packed programme for you tonight. coming up, the white house says they have still had no consular access to anerican journalist evan gershkovich, who is being held by the russians on spying charges. we will speak tonight from the former soviet dissident natan sharansky, who was held in the same moscow prison in the 1970s. we will also hearfrom mark urban on his continiung investigation into russia s 331 parachute regiment, and the losses that unit has sustained in ukraine. but we start tonight with the clean up within britain s biggest police force. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, who was appointed in september, believes there are hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force who should not be in the job. and so concerned is he at the scale of the problem, that around 90 of his officers from serious and organised crime have been tasked with investigating their own. this morning, sir mark set out the plans
i am velshi, it is the last time hurt in the january six committee. the committee is set to resume the hearings this week, laying out more findings from its year long investigation of the insurrection at the capitol. donald trump is desperate and illegal attempt to cling to power. the next hearing assad for this coming wednesday september 28th. that s one of the afternoon. over the last few days, members of the committee a participated in something called the texas tribune festival in, austin texas. they make comments about their investigation, given hints of what might be to come. here s with the democratic congressman of maryland said during his appearance. bannon said the night before tomorrow, all hell is going to break loose. it s not going to go down the way that anyone thinks it s going to go down. there are clearly people who understood the preparations that were taking place. if you think you almost knock over the government of the united states spontaneously,
proceed from the palace of holyroodhouse to the cathedral. king charles iii and the queen consort will travel from london to the scottish capital for that service. the public will also be able to pay their respects when the queen s coffin remains in the cathedral until tuesday. in the days ahead, the queen s casket will travel to buckingham palace in london and then to westminster hall, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral next monday. edinburgh marks the first leg of the queen s final journey, then. there are crowds of mourners on the streets on sunday to pay their respects. [ applause ] those who have gathered clapped as the queen s casket passed by after it made a six-hour journey from balmoral estate, where the queen died on thursday at the age of 96. many are still grappling with the loss as they bid their longest-serving monarch a final farewell. she s the only queen i ve ever known. i think she done really good for us. i think she held a lot together.
kostroma, some 200 miles north east of moscow, is not a bad place to go looking for the effects of the ukraine war on russia and the authorities efforts to prepare the people for vladimir putin s special military operation. it is a small city, with a population of around a quarter of a million people, and it is home to a celebrated regiment that bears its name. a unit that has been in the forefront of all the main battles. the 331st guards parachute regiment, often called the kostroma airborne regiment, has been the subject of several bbc investigations since the full scall invasion began in february 2022. newnsight s mark urban is back with the third instalment of his long running investigation. here s a taste. of those on the receiving end, and the bombardment of ukrainian civilians, there is little coverage. a russian reporting does give people at home some glimpses of what is happening at the front.
russian narrative. it is to protect russian -speaking members of the ukrainian from and not see hoard that has sprung from kyiv. i think the other interesting thing that we see now is the kind of response that you re getting here with the public to the partial mobilization. now as many as 300,000 people could be drafted in russia to fight this war on the front lines. already, we are seeing some people attempting to leave the country. there have been cues, bigger cues of traffic, of people trying to get to neighboring countries. men of fighting age. also, we have seen tickets be sold out. airline tickets been sold out. prices are going through the roof. people are voting with their feet, really, to try to escape from vladimir putin s special military operation. sky news is alex rossi